Re: SpamCop

From: Roland Schneider (list-opensrs@serv.ch)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 18:05:39 EST


--ezgoing wrote on 06.03.03 14:33 -0600:

[blubber deleted]
> I just feel that SpamCop and these other spam fighting organizations that
> use terrorist methods of blacklisting entire mail servers or IP ranges
> create more problems than the spam that they try to fight.
>
> Fight spam with laws that penalize the spammers. Don't blacklist
> mailservers and penalize the innocent to get the one guilty party on the
> mail server.

Please try at least to inform yourself bevor invoking Godwin.

Last month the opensrs-reseller

X-OSRS-Id: osrs-resellers-1009

Clifton, Anthony clifton@captainjack.com
    2866 NW 82nd Ave
    Ankeny, IA 50021
    US
    515-964-8500 Fax: 515-965-5924

has piped his daily renewal-notices from opensrs into the Spamcop-
system, and at least 3 domain-owners managed to enter a spamtrap
from Spamcop instead of their own email-address.

In all cases Tucows got a notice, and would have been able to report
the failing users to Spamcop which in turn will immediately close
that account, and tell them their spamtraps are not secret anymore.

Tucows could also simply change the ip of the outgoing mailserver
and fix the problem within a few seconds.

And btw Tucows is still number #2 in providing spamvertized domains:
http://www.polarbeach.com/topics/Registrars.htm, but the spammers
are now moving to Joker because they also provide bulletproof dns...

Roland



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